Senior Software Engineer (Multiverse)

Waymo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous company benefits

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled software engineer to enhance its autonomous driving technology. In this hybrid role, you will develop and improve simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capabilities of a cutting-edge driver system. Your expertise in C++, Python, and SQL will be crucial in building a robust infrastructure for virtual testing. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to making roads safer through advanced technology and contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of mobility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in developing hypotheses and running experiments.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure for a virtual driver's test for the Waymo Driver.
• Improve signal quality and simulation workflows for testing.

Skills

C++

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Simulation

Data Processing

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

PhD in a quantitative field

Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Our mission within the Driver Understanding and Evaluation (DUE) team at Waymo is to develop rich metrics for understanding the behavior of the Waymo Driver in the real world.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver's test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver.


• Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver's test". Improve the quality of individual simulations and that of the overarching simulation workflows. Try to answer whether the results of the "virtual driver's test" are predictive of the Waymo Driver's real-world driving behavior.


• Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our "virtual driver's test": simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results.

You have:

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience




• C++ proficiency


• Python familiarity


• SQL familiarity

• Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

We prefer:

• 7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system.


• B.Sc. in Computer Science


• Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems.

#LI-Hybrid

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$204,000—$259,000 USD